Economic theory and philosophy

The concept of the individual and his/her motivations is a bedrock of philosophy.

"Industrielle Kostenrechnung" bietet für Ingenieure eine ideale Einführung in die Grundlagen und in die modernen Verfahren der industriellen Kostenrechnung.

Chong argues that when foreign actors face high opportunity costs of intervention in a weak state, their behavior may foster sovereignty.

A lot of economic problems can be formulated as constrained optimizations and equilibration of their solutions.

Synergetic Economics presents a new advance in analytical economics.

This Palgrave Pivot reviews the history of the UK's Retail Prices Index (RPI) from its origins just after the Second World War to its controversial position today.

Elinor Ostrom's Nobel Prize-winning work on common pool property rights has implications for some of the most pressing sustainability issues of the twenty-first century - from tackling climate change to maintaining cyberspace.

In this monograph, noncooperative games are studied.

Weldon's writings address many of the themes that have preoccupied Canadian political economists over the last thirty years: unemployment, wage controls, inflation, pensions, privatization and social ownership, economic planning, social policy, the means and extent of state intervention, and the rise of neo-conservatism.

This book explains and justifies efficient general methods of making decisions and will guide practical efforts to streamline rational choice.

Alfred Marshall has traditionally been listed alongside pioneering 'neoclassical' economists.

This book chronicles the way Keynes's generous philosophy of practice evolved in consonance with the needs of his epoch.

Volume 31 of Research in Economic History (REHI) is forthcoming in April 2015.

This volume traces the evolution of the field of law and economics from its European roots to its neoclassical "e;Chicagoan"e; period to its current identity as a more fluid, transatlantic discipline.

The author undertakes a new interpretation of physiocratic economics and its contributions to the foundation of economic science.

A Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and Bloomberg Businessweek Book of the YearWhy our banking system is broken-and what we must do to fix itNew bank failures have been a rude awakening for everyone who believed that the banking industry was reformed after the Global Financial Crisis-and that we'd never again have to choose between massive bailouts and financial havoc.

First published in 1944 (Sir Halley Stewart Lectures 1938), the original blurb reads: "e;In Rich Man, Poor Man, Professor John Hilton examines the facts as to the distribution of wealth in this country.

A groundbreaking new synthesis and theory of social institutionsUnderstanding Institutions proposes a new unified theory of social institutions that combines the best insights of philosophers and social scientists who have written on this topic.

Exponential smoothing methods have been around since the 1950s, and are still the most popular forecasting methods used in business and industry.

In the years following its publication, F.

These notes are the result of an interrupted sequence of seminars on optimiza- tion theory with economic applications starting in 1964-1965.

This book explains why moral beliefs can and likely do play an important role in the development and operation of market economies.

A truly comprehensive treatment of the economic role of the state in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries from a historical and world perspective.

Physiocracy, or the economic theory that a nation's wealth comes from is agricultural and land development, was a popular school of thought in France in the 18th century.

After a decade of development, genetic algorithms and genetic programming have become a widely accepted toolkit for computational finance.

A penetrating analysis from one of the defining voices of contemporary economics.

Do humans have a special capacity designed to foster experiences of God?

This textbook addresses the core issues facing economists concerning price determination in commodity markets, especially food and agricultural commodities.

This book grew out of the teaching and lecture notes for a course in "e;Dynamic Economics"e; given at Copenhagen University where it has been part of a combined study program in economics and mathematics since 1986.

The primary goal of this book is to present the research findings and conclusions of physicists, economists, mathematicians and financial engineers working in the field of "e;Econophysics"e; who have undertaken agent-based modelling, comparison with empirical studies and related investigations.

This edited volume proposes that the phenomenon of private sector, financialized higher education expansion in the United States benefits from a range of theoretical and methodological treatments.

In 1992, when Paul Erdos was awarded a Doctor Honoris Causa by Charles University in Prague, a small conference was held, bringing together a distin- guished group of researchers with interests spanning a variety of fields related to Erdos' own work.

The investigation of special topics in systems dynamics -uncertain dynamic processes, viability theory, nonlinear dynamics in models for biomathematics, inverse problems in control systems theory-has become a major issue at the System and Decision Sciences Research Program of the International Insti- tute for Applied Systems Analysis.

This book argues that patents and copyrights are not necessary for innovation and overall do not serve the public good.

Economics After the Crisis is an introductory economics textbook, covering key topics in micro and macro economics.

In this book, originally published in 1937, Jacob Viner traces, in a series of studies of contemporary source-material, the evolution of the modern orthodox theory of international trade from its beginnings in the revolt against English mercantilism in the 17th and 18th centuries, through the English currency and tariff controversies of the 19th century, to the late 20th century.

A technological revolution is driving capitalism toward crisis and collapse - can our society evolve in time to rescue the future?

Historians have often speculated on the alternative paths the United Stages might have taken during the Great Depression: What if Franklin D.

This book contains commentaries from the series "e;Klassiker der Nationalokonomie"e; (classics of economics), which have been translated into English for the first time.